Mencolico Quotes & Sayings

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others. — Max Anders

Don't just have dreams. Take actions too. To make it possible, begin every dream with a simple action and your interest will beam out. — Israelmore Ayivor

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God. — Saint Augustine

It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless. — Barack Obama

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that. — Lola Kirke

Great people do not do great things; God does great things through surrendered people. — Jennie Allen

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production. — Tino Sehgal

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion. — Joni Mitchell

Steps are what you take when you think you have forever. — Nicholas Lore

...unlike Aretha, [Al Green's] only rival vocally, Al never sold himself short in the studio. Where the albums follow the vagaries of genius, the hits exploit Al's personal production line, every one a perfect soul record and a perfect pop record in whatever order suits your petty little values. Brashly feminine and seductively woman-friendly, he breaks free in a register that darts and floats and soars into falsetto with startling frequency and beguiling ease. He's so gorgeous, so sexy, so physically attractive that only masochists want to live without him. — Robert Christgau

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice. — Bernice Sandler

In my life, I had lost only two things: my favorite pair of gloves and a handful of my favorite people. But now? Now I was starting to lose the ground under my feet. — Orson De Witt

Isn't that normal? To want to be alone sometimes? — A J Betts

Don't try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them. — Ray Bradbury

Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement. — Eddie Rickenbacker